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Occupational Dermatitis What … ?. Graeme Waller Regulatory Inspector (HID CI 1A). What … What … What … What …. is dermatitis? causes dermatitis? are the common causes? has HSE investigated?. CONTENT. What … What … What … What …. does it look like? does it feel like?

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Design and use appropriate work processes, systems and engineering controls and use suitable work equipment and materials.

Control the exposure of the substance at source (eg enclosures, adequate exhaust ventilation systems and appropriate organisational measures).

Where adequate control cannot be achieved by other means, provide adequate protective equipment (such as suitable chemical protective gloves).

Any questions so far? hierarchy to be used to adequately control the risks associated with skin exposure.

What hierarchy to be used to adequately control the risks associated with skin exposure. … is health surveillance?

Health surveillance is for the protection of individuals, to identify as early as possible any indications of disease or adverse changes related to exposure, so that steps can be taken to treat their condition and to advise them about the future.

It may also provide early warning of lapses in control and indicate the need for a reassessment of the risk.

Predictive tests are never likely to be totally reliable, and because certain known toxic agents still need to be used, dermatological health surveillance must NEVER be regarded as reducing the need for control of exposure and effective decontamination after exposure.

When hierarchy to be used to adequately control the risks associated with skin exposure. … is it required?

Health surveillance is required when:

an employee is exposed to a hazardous agent; and

the agent is known to be associated with an identifiable disease or an adverse effect; and

there is a reasonable likelihood that the disease or the adverse effect may occur under the particular conditions of the work; and